![]() Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny H. Miller said they found more crabs on this trip than they expected, but they’re not making any predictions until they’ve sampled all the way to Tangier Sound and the Virginia line.WASHINGTON - U.S. They will have sampled more than 30 sites by late afternoon before Morris threads Mydra Ann back through the channel markers to the state-owned Department of Natural Resources slip on Kent Narrows. Miller measures and weighs them, checks their sex and carefully records the data before tossing them back. Here, the net is full of old oyster shells and Murphy and McClair dump the net and begin sorting.įor the third time in a row, they find crabs. ![]() It varies, depending on their life stage and their gender.”īy the time they reach Six Mile Knoll, once a prime oystering ground off Sparrows Point, they’ve caught crabs – some ready for the steamer, others barely the size of a fingernail – across several sites. “Overwintering mortality really kind of depends on the size of the crab, the sex of the crab. “Sustained water temperature below four degrees Celsius gets very stressful on them when they're in their hibernation state,” she explained. But crabs are more sensitive to temperature. “And I try to do a good job 'cause it affects me in the summertime on my bushel limits.”Īs they reach each sampling site, McClair dumps a bucket of water over the side and scoops up a new one to test for temperature and salinity.īlue crabs can tolerate a wide range of salinity, from ocean water to almost fresh, she said. “Because everything, our bushel limits, are based on what we catch here in the wintertime,” he said. He says it’s a bit easier than the work in Virginia. It was banned as an environmental conservation measure. ![]() Morris, who has fished crab pots in the summer for more than 40 years, once dredged for crabs in the winter in Virginia waters until that was banned in 2008. “You know, late in the season they tend to find deeper water and move south to overwinter.”īut for this survey, which Maryland and Virginia have been doing for more than 30 years, they have to sample the whole Bay to get an accurate picture – 750 sites in each state chosen by a random computer program.Ĭapt. “They tend to move more south, and it’s just a general function of the concentration of crabs,” he said. Miller, the biologist, says that’s not unusual for this part of the Bay at this time of year. Nothing.īut it’s only the first stop on a trip that will take them from the Eastern to Western shore, off the mouths of the Patapsco and Magothy rivers and back to Kent Narrows, about 45 miles southeast of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, by the end of the day. McClair and John Murphy, Morris’s crewman, flip the net to empty it onto a wide wooden platform and begin sorting on their hands and knees through an array of shells, searching for blue crabs. Morris eased the throttle forward and dragged the dredge through the mud for one minute at three knots, then hauled it back up, pausing to rinse the mud out before bringing it on board. A Virginia dredge refers to an eight foot wide piece of equipment with an attached net that gets dropped into the water to dredge for crabs. Roger Morris, a Dorchester County waterman who works under contract with the state’s department of natural resources, dropped a Virginia dredge off the stern of Mydra Ann, his 45-foot Bay workboat, and let the attached chain pay out until the dredge hit bottom 20-some feet below, jolting the boat. On a recent gray January morning, they were working a section of the upper Chesapeake Bay off Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore.Ĭapt. “And that's really just us partnering with academic institutions or other scientists in the region to identify knowledge gaps when it comes to blue crabs and help to fill those knowledge gaps,” McClair said. They use the results to develop a management program and then they do research. Genine McClair, who runs the Maryland Department of Natural Resource’s blue crab program, says the survey is the first of three steps. “If we tried to do the same thing and get an estimate during the summertime, it'd be impossible.” Miller said that winter is ideal because, “this is the only time of the year that they're not mobile,” he explained. Shaun Miller, a biologist with Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources, says they have to do it in the winter because that’s when crabs hibernate, when they “bury themselves in the mud.” State employees use the information they get to develop harvest regulations for commercial crabbers. Workers are dredging the muddy bottom in the water for crabs, not for the steamer, but for research. Every year about this time, crews from Maryland’s and Virginia’s natural resources departments head out onto the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries on boats.
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![]() ![]() The first trailer, given that it's a teaser, is a short and chaotic introduction to the upcoming fourth season however, a second, longer trailer was released a few days before Christmas, in which one can get a better understanding of the unfolding situation. As the voice continues, the visuals of the first trailer show the leader of the Armed Detective Agency, Yukichi Fukuzawa, accepting an award or gift at an auspicious-looking ceremony, before the visuals get darker and shift to the clearly shellshocked face of Edogawa, followed by what appears to be a brief snippet of someone falling from height. In the first Bungo Stray Dogs season 4 trailer, a voice can be heard imploring his friends and colleagues not to accept a certain job because it will spell the end of the Armed Detective Agency. It's clear that he isn't yet done throwing Yokohama into chaos. Despite being captive, Dostoevsky appears to have an important role in the events that are going to play out in the upcoming season, and features heavily in both trailers. Ranpo Edogawa's abilities of deduction are put to the ultimate test as the Armed Detective Agency's reputation is sullied, and its members hunted for unknown reasons. ![]() The first Bungo Stray Dogs season 4 trailer is an 80-second whirlwind that quickly shows the upcoming season's most important plot line – the Armed Detective Agency is being targeted by a group known as the Decay of the Angel, and to make things worse, there's a conspiracy to frame the agency. ![]() ![]() Then he forgot about it, until February.įebruary, while in a 20-person Zoom meeting on how much we should freak out about Core Web Vitals, I logged into LSG’s GMB dashboard to see if maybe we had been moved to Colorado (hopefully nearĪspen),” Shotland wrote in a post. He said Local SEO Guide doesn’t really rely on the company’s GMB page for leads, but sent a note to GMB support for help. According to GMB, he moved and opened a hotel, all in the midst of COVID-19. Not only did GMB somehowĬhange the location of this business, but said the company apparently opened a hotel, as Shotland wrote in a post. MediaPost about search, I’ve learned that Blumenthal and Local SEO Guide Founder Andrew Shotland are two funny and smart SEO guys. ![]() Thank you, Mike Blumenthal, Near Media co-founder and authority on local search, for calling this to our attention in a tweet. Well, not so funnyīecause Local SEO Guide, an SEO agency, was never located in Kansas, but Google My Business believes the Pleasanton, California, company has been located in Fawn Creek Township, KS, since November Carlson will make the best of it, I’m sure, but make no mistake: This move is a downgrade for the host, no matter how grateful he is that anyone is tuning in.A funny thing happened on the way to Kansas. While some of these people will surely figure out how to follow Carlson over to Twitter, my guess is that the host will now primarily be performing for the caviling nerds of Twitter Blue, whose interest in his show will be directly proportionate to the amount of time Carlson spends investigating why Steve Albini gets more engagement than they do. Fox News appeals primarily to the sort of old, angry people who have to ask their adult children to show them how to use the remote control. But even if Musk has ambitions of building Twitter into a multimedia platform that does host original content, good luck convincing Carlson’s Fox News audience to follow him there. You don’t go to Best Buy to get a sandwich, and you don’t go to Twitter to watch the news. For one thing, as I mentioned earlier, Twitter does not have shows. It Only Got Worse From There.ĭonald Trump’s Legal Team Is in Utter Turmoilīut aside from the money that Carlson presumably stands to make here in one way or another, and the joy that both he and Musk presumably take from riling erstwhile blue checks with further confirmation that Twitter is no longer their platform, it’s a bit harder to see how this move makes sense from an eyeballs-on-programming standpoint. I Even Have Video.Īfter My Wife Got Cancer, Her Catholic School Fired Her. What Happens When You Die? Unlike Most People, I Know. ![]() It’s Not in Your Head: Something Weird Is Going On With Job Interviews This is a guy, after all, who mused that this past weekend’s mass shooting by an apparent neo-Nazi in Dallas was some kind of left-wing false flag. But, more likely, Musk just can’t help it. If it’s a business move, it pencils out only in the sense that right-wing media is hugely profitable. While popular wisdom holds that Musk has declared war on legacy blue checks because he is a troll and a jerk-and while he is, indeed, both of those things-I think he’s also making a play to refocus discourse on Twitter around the opinions and priorities of tech guys and right-wingers. In the six months or so that Musk has helmed Twitter, he has been focused on constraining mainstream opinion leaders’ influence there, if not on driving them off the platform entirely. Although Musk said Tuesday that Twitter had not inked any sort of deal with Carlson, the mogul is rich enough to meet Carlson’s price without thinking too hard about it-and he’s also grandiose enough to pitch Carlson hard on the upside of becoming Twitter’s star content creator. But Twitter, I suppose, makes a certain amount of sense. ![]() To free your cursor, hit the right ALT key. So when you click on anything in its window, will capture the cursor and not let it go again, which would be really embarrassing if anyone wandered in to see why you were cursing at your laptop. Warning: The VM doesn't know it's not the only computer on your computer. The install then proceeds normally, within one window of your PC rather than taking up the whole thing. The install takes about as long as it would on a normal hard drive, but instead of asking what partition of your hard drive it should live in, it shows only unpartitioned space on the virtual hard drive you've already set up. My VM didn't like 64-bit versions of either Windows 7 or Vista, but was fine with a 32-bit version of XP Home Edition. If you're loading the OS from a CD, go to the menu bar of the VM window, click on CD and tell it to capture the physical CD drive. Then either insert the CD into the drive or drag your ISO file onto the CD icon in the Virtual PC command window. To install the OS from a CD or ISO file, make sure the window surrounding the VM - the actual VM, which looks at this point like a DOS window, not the console you used to set the configuration - is the active window on your machine. If you haven't already provisioned an operating system image, it will think about things for a while, then tell you to go find a proper boot address. But that's only the configuration, not the VM itself.Īfter configuration, the Virtual PC Console remains onscreen while Virtual PC runs in the background, taking up about 17 MB of memory just sitting there.Ĭlicking Start opens a command window in which Virtual PC uses DHCP to try to find itself an IP address. The whole process takes less time than it does to install most bits of freeware. Pick the latter to do things like increasing the RAM available to the VM from the default of 128 MB to a gigabyte, or raise the default virtual-hard-disk size from 16 GB to something with enough room for an OS and any applications you want to run only within the VM. It will launch a Wizard that offers the choice of opening an existing virtual PC, creating one with default settings or will walk you through the process of configuring one yourself. Then click the Start menu and find Virtual PC. Once you've downloaded the installation package, launch it and follow instructions. Either way, get the right edition for your machine. The newest version of Virtual PC supports USB peripherals and are supposed to be able to support 64-bit operating systems within the VM as well. There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions Virtual PC cares about the difference. Microsoft requirements call for a 400 MHz or above Pentium-compatible processor, 35 MB of disk space and Windows XP or Vista. Microsoft offers instructions and links to specific manufacturers here. Chances are, for most desktops and laptops, it's not. Once you know if the silicon supports it, check to see if your BIOS is set up to use those hooks. Intel Processor Identification Utility AMD Virtualization and Hyper-V compatibility Check. Intel and AMD have their own utilities as well, if you want to double check. Microsoft provides a free utility to check your processor. Virtual PC will work on chips that don't have those hooks, but not well. Intel and AMD have both built hooks into their processors that allow the host and guest operating system (the virtual machine) to trade off tasks more smoothly. I loaded and ran it on a laptop running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of memory. And, fortunately, the installation procedure is the same for Virtual PC whether you're licensed for XP Mode or not. That's not to say Virtual PC doesn't run there, anyway, however. Those with Home Premium or Starter are stuck Virtual PC not only doesn't come with those editions, Microsoft theoretically doesn't allow Virtual PC to even run on anything but Vista, XP or the three more exalted editions of Windows 7. Users running Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise have to download both XP Mode and Virtual PC, on which it runs. The meteorite also was heated, perhaps as recent as during entry in Earth's atmosphere. In Sutter's Mill, the liquid water appears to have destroyed the silicate type of these, according to Xuchao Zhao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with NASA and UC Davis colleagues. In primitive meteorites like Sutter's Mill, some grains survive from what existed in the cloud of gas, dust and ices that formed the solar system. "It is possible that radioactive compounds in the meteorite's parent body heated the nascent planet to the point that water ice became liquid." "We determined that minerals such as calcium and magnesium carbonate likely precipitated from liquid water 2.4 to 5.0 million years after the formation of the solar system," says Jilly. Based on isotopes of the elements manganese and chromium, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow Christine Jilly and colleagues now report when that happened. Some fragments escaped alteration by liquid water, while others where heavily altered. "The formation of the solar system did not fully erase and homogenize these signatures and Sutter’s Mill provides the clearest record yet," said Yin, also a co-lead of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite Consortium. They found that at least five different stellar sources composed of mixtures of 54-chromium-rich and -poor materials must have contributed matter to the nascent solar system four and half billion years ago. Some of these materials remained in the Sutter's Mill meteorite. University of California (UC), Davis researchers Akane Yamakawa and Qing-Zhu Yin studied the different forms of the element chromium, called isotopes. "Bits and pieces that originated in the interior of other much larger parent bodies." "We suspect that these diamonds are so-called xenoliths,” says Kebukawa. The larger diamonds found in Sutter's Mill may have had another origin closer to home. Nanodiamonds are thought to originate in the atmospheres of stars. ![]() "The two 10-micron diamond grains we found in this meteorite are too small to sparkle in a ring," said Mike Zolensky, space scientist of Johnson, working with associate professor Yoko Kebukawa late of Hokkaido University, Japan, "But their size is much larger than the nanometer-sized diamonds commonly found in such meteorites." ![]() In his search, Jenniskens was guided by Marc Fries of NASA's Johnson Space Center, in Houston, who describes in detail how Doppler weather radar enabled the rapid and pristine collection of the meteorites. Jenniskens found one of the first and one of the most unusual of the Sutter's Mill meteorites before rain hit the area. "From what falls naturally to the ground, much does not survive the violent collision with Earth's atmosphere." "Sutter's Mill gives us a glimpse of what future NASA spacecraft may find when they bring back samples from a primitive asteroid,” said consortium lead Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. They report their results in thirteen papers in the November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Researchers digging deeper into the origins of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in California's Gold Country in 2012, found diamonds and other "treasures" that provide important new insight into the early days of our solar system. ![]() ![]() Use a transferable sharder cache file as a workaround, or don't load Funky's Fly 'N' Buy before level 1-4 is cleared. There's a problem with shader cache, if you try to load "Funky's Fly 'N' Buy" too early (just after level 1-2). Game runs smoothly until getting a second character, then drops to 30-50fps. Other than that no major changes from 1.7.1. Greatly improved performance in slowdown stages/areas, though still somewhat present in certain specific spots. Game runs smoothly until about 15 minutes into gameplay when framerate drops from consistent 50-60 to <10FPS. Game does not detect Wii U Classic Controller and still does not detect Wii U Pro controller. Nearly perfect, appears to be AMD GPU-specific. Very slow in some levels, making the game mostly unplayable for me. Game is playable besides some slowdowns, but some characters (like DK or some enemies) are invisible, making it difficult to play. (at least if you die constantly at the same spot as I do) This sometimes drags the fps down to 15, making it hard to complete the level. The game runs more or less great except for some levels that have a lot of thing happening in the background. Nearly perfect, appears to be AMD GPU- specific. (no multiplayer) Nearly perfect otherwise, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.Ĭonsistent 60fps in-game, 2nd player input still not detected. Wii U Pro controller input settings still not detected. Occasional crashes.Ħ0fps in title screen, menus/cutscenes, *and* in overworld, 55-60fps in-game. Graphical glitches including static, lines appearing when collecting bananas, and entire screen going black except for the HUD. (no multiplayer)Ĭoloured impossible to play screen with sound and music It appears enabling ""overwrite vertex buffer size"" significantly lowers performance in this title, (possibly AMD-specific?) previously had it enabled in past submissions. The game not detected gamepad and when tick full screen, crash windowsĥ0-60fps in title screen, menus/cutscenes, *and* in overworld, 45-60fps in-game. It does not work the control and can not play, but videos play an music works perfectly After the sound ended, it freezes.Ĭharacter texture glitches, slowdowns on big effects/level changes, or on certain levels. While loading, you can hear sound, but have a screen glitch, which move. No character texture/audio issues so far, appears to be AMD GPU- specific. No character texture/audio issues to speak of, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.ĥ0-60fps in title screen, 50-60fps in menus/cutscenes, 20fps in overworld/in-game. Previously mentioned moving green/red static screen can be bypassed using a save file.Ĭan get in game and is consistent 15 fps with full audio until you try to progress to another area where it freezes with music still playing. (Eventually freezes after waiting several minutes, but does not crash.)Ģ0fps in title screen/overworld and 50-60fps in menus/cutscenes, 15fps in-game. ~20fps in title screen and 50-60fps in menus, no longer hangs in black loading screen after selecting file/controls, now loads to a moving green/red static screen at ~50fps that is driving me bananas. ~10fps in title screen and menus, hangs in black screen at 250+fps after selecting file/controls. ![]() When finished loading In-game shows a black screen at 60 fps. Gets in Menu 5-9 fps and grafical issues on letters. Hangs in visible loading screen, ultimately freezes. When the game asks whether you want to play on the Television or the Gamepad, choose Television or you will have a black screen.ĭonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze on Cemu 1.26.2 Testing Testing The glitch is fairly subtle and not particularly distracting, but noticeable if you're keeping a close eye on the distant background. Certain levels in World 6 experience a similar issue where the distant fog has large striped squares in it. The fog in the far background of 5-1: Harvest Hazards appears to be somewhat visually corrupted, rendering as unusual translucent textures rather than fog. The glitching seems to be dependent on Donkey Kong's positioning, as as soon as you start moving it is likely to revert to a normal appearance. Near the first checkpoint of level 6-A: Dynamite Dash, the lighting on the massive ice pillar in the close background will occasionally glitch out, turning deep blue. When you pass the Big Squeekly encased in ice in the level 6-4: Blurry Flurry, its laughter is not audible. The auditory echo effect that is supposed to play at the intro to 2-BOSS: Mountaintop Tussle does not work, so sound effects do not have any echo in this location. Previously known issues for older cemu builds but unchecked with most recent ![]() All the timers I tested were too complex for my taste. To use the service you must be able to add HTML directly to your web page and IFRAME tags must be allowed. ThermoPro TM02W Digital Kitchen Timer with Adjustable Loud Alarm and Backlight LCD Big Digits/ 24 Hour Digital Timer for Kids Teachers with Dual Countdown Stop Watches Timer/Magnetic Timer Clock. SnapTimer is a simple, free, portable countdown timer for Windows. If more than two clocks/timers are used, a separate link to should be provided on the page. Mechanical Visual Timer Small Magnetic Kitchen Countdown Timer With Loud Alarm For Kids And Adults Baking Cooking Timers AliExpress Visual Timer. You may place up to six clocks and countdown timers on a single page. A small preview window at the bottom right corner of your web page should also appear next to the form. Use the form below to customize your own countdown timer.
If a user installs an app from outside of the managed Google Play store or the Work Apps tab, the app isn't managed. When you return to the Web and mobile apps list, the app is listed almost immediately after you add it.Īndroid apps are available for users to install from managed Google Play or the Work Apps tab of the Play Store the next time their device syncs with Google endpoint management. The app's detail page opens automatically. This setting creates a more secure network connection for work profile traffic. When enabled, app traffic from a work profile or managed device must pass through this app. To apply a managed configuration before you force install the app, select Available, complete these steps, apply the managed configuration, then edit the app settings to force install the app.įor devices under basic or advanced mobile management:Īutomatically install the app on users' devices.įor devices under advanced mobile management:Īllow users to add an app widget (when available) for a home screen shortcut.It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components. ![]() Use integrated Cloud Identity features to manage users and set up security options like. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. With this option, the app is automatically installed on all managed devices, with no option to opt out. Get started Security and control Centralized administration makes setup and management fast and easy. To install the app on all managed devices, select Force install. GET ORGANIZED Be more productive with these Google apps for your iPhone Google Calendar A simple, useful calendar from Google Intelligently manage your time with useful features like.While there is no CRM made by Google, popular CRM products can integrate with tools like Gmail, Calendar, Google Analytics, and Drive to access Google data from your CRM platform. With this option, users who don’t need the app don’t have to download it. Customer relationship management (CRM) software for Google lets users sync data between their Google Workspace applications and CRM systems. If Chromes early adopters manage to iron out some wrinkles in the features, wed like to see Memory Saver controls pushed up to the settings as. ![]() Designed for Android, Chrome brings you personalized news articles, quick links to your favorite sites, downloads, and Google.
![]() ![]() Graphics: Intel GMA X4500, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 – 256MB VRAM.Processor: Intel Pentium 4 (64-bit), Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 – 2.2 GHz +.Here are the minimum requirements: Football Manager 2020 The storefront previously offered two games, Railway Empire and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, for free the week of September 10.įootball Manager 2020 is available now on PC, Stadia, and Switch.Epic Games Store is offering Football Manager 2020 for players on Windows and macOS, and Watch Dogs 2 and Stick It To The Man for players on Windows, but the latter is also available for macOS via Steam, where it is priced $7.99 at the time of writing. That game became so popular it was even played by members of the LA Chargers using the jumbotron in California's new SoFi Stadium.Īfter Football Manager 2020, Stick It To The Man!, and Watch Dogs 2 finish their free week, the Epic Games Store will be offering RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition for free between September 24 and October 1. Another recent example is Mediatonic's Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, which became a widely-played social media sensation after launching as one of the PlayStation Plus free games for August 2020. Other developers have also seen success by offering up their games for free during limited periods. The game was entirely sold in recyclable cardboard packaging to help reduce the environmental impact of plastic casing typically used by video game companies, and Sega Europe decided to publish all PC games in recyclable packaging to follow that, starting with this year's "Enemy at the Gates" edition of Total War: Rome 2. While Football Manager 2020 has clearly been a successful game for both Sports Interactive and publisher Sega, it was also something of a trailblazer upon release on October 31, 2019. ![]() He said over half of that came in 24 hours, and five times more people claimed the game in the first 36 hours than during the entire two-week period when Football Manager 2020 was offered for free on Steam in March. Over one million people claimed a free copy of Football Manager 2020 on the Epic Games Store in three days, according to a Tweet put out by Studio Director Miles Jacobson today. RELATED: One Third of Developers Say Their Games Were Delayed By COVID-19 Sports Interactive advertised this partnership on its blog by talking about the game's cross-play and cross-progression as a way for previous fans to get it free on another platform, but it seems the response extended further. PT, alongside Zoink's Stick It To The Man! and Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2. However, the series' previous entry Football Manager 2020 has apparently seen a huge amount of success after being offered as a free title on the Epic Games Store.įootball Manager 2020 is one of three free game on the online storefront between September 17 and September 24 at 8:00 a.m. Developer Sports Interactive announced that Football Manager 2021 would be delayed due to COVID-19 in July, and there are currently no updates as to when exactly the game will be released. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to huge numbers of delays for video games. Now here’s the thing if you have all HomeKit devices in your smart home you don’t need to use Alexa to control them you can just control them using Siri voice commands directly on your Apple watch.īut the issue with this is some of the most popular smart home devices like the Nest Thermostat aren’t compatible with HomeKit. Related Post: 101 Best Alexa Commands Best HomeKit Devices “Alexa, set my thermostat to air conditioning.” You can use the full lineup of Alexa commands on your Apple watch just like a normal Alexa device but I’ve listed out some popular Alexa commands you can use to control your smart home below. There’s nothing better than at the end of a long day telling your Apple watch to turn off the lights so you can go to sleep without needing to get up. I use voice commands to turn on and off my lighting ever night and adjust the temperature before I go to bed. Once you start using voice commands to control your home you realize how convenient it is and having an Apple Watch on your wrist to issue voice commands to control your home makes you feel like the King or Queen of your castle. I see this app as being a great way to add additional smart home functionality to your Apple watch for the devices that you may love like the Nest Thermostat that aren’t officially supported by HomeKit. The app gets good reviews on the iOS store and the developer has provided a ton of supporting tutorials and videos on setting up and using Alexa with the Apple watch on their website The voice in a can app works on Gen 2 and later Apple watches but if I were considering getting a new apple watch I would get an Apple Watch with both GPS and Cellular built in so I could use it as stand alone device without my phone if I wanted. Open the app and enter your Amazon Alexa Account information.Ĭongratulations that Alexa is now connected to your Apple Watch Add Alexa Your Apple Watchĭownload Voice in a Can through the iOS store The App works on wifi and mobile data, so you can use it in your home or on the move. The Voice in Can app is $1.99 on the app store and will work on the Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. You will need to download the Voice In Can App available on iOS store. There isn’t an official Alexa app that you can put on the Apple Watch, but there is a third party app that will connect Alexa on your Apple watch. If you have a home full of smart home devices but not all of them are compatible with HomeKit controlling them with Alexa on your Apple Watch offers a great alternative. Because there are far more smart home devices that are compatible with Alexa than HomeKit adding Alexa to your Apple watch allows you to control more smart devices with voice commands through your Apple Watch. You can ask it questions or give it Alexa commands just like a stand alone Echo Device. Once you connect Alexa to your Apple watch it will be capable of using Alexa on the Apple watch just like it is an Alexa device. ![]() What Can You Do With Alexa on Apple Watch In addition to all of those features, Alexa can be a powerful voice assistant for your smart home and is capable of controlling smart home devices like smart thermostats, smart lights, smart cameras and smart locks. ![]() You can also play games with Alexa, listen to music and even watch movies on it, if you have an Alexa device like the Echo Show or Echo Show 5. With HomeKit you can then control your smart light bulbs by saying voice commands to your iPhone like “Siri, turn on the living room lights.” What Is Alexa?Īlexa is Amazon’s smart voice assistant that allows to ask questions like the weather forecast, your daily schedule, listen to daily news briefings or answer general questions you have. HomeKit is Apple’s smart home integration system that provides direct integration with Apple iOS and allows you to control smart home devices from one app the “HomeKit” app on your iPhone, Apple Watch or use Siri voice commands to control your smart home using Siri voice commands on your phone or Apple Watch. But the vast majority of smart home devices are Alexa compatible because it’s the most popular voice assistant, which makes adding Alexa to your Apple Watch an incredibly useful hack. However not all smart home devices are HomeKit compatible. The Apple Watch has native integration with HomeKit and Siri which allows you to control some smart home devices out of the box with HomeKit and Siri. Otherwise we'll give you a short primer on HomeKit, Alexa, Siri and smart home control. If you already know about HomeKit and Alexa and just want to learn how to connect Alexa on the Apple Watch you can skip ahead. In this post we teach you how to add Alexa to your Apple Watch so you can control your smart home devices with Alexa though your Apple Watch.Ĭonnecting Alexa to your Apple watch adds additional functionality to both devices and allows you to have smart home voice control of almost any smart home device. |
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